Word: dementia
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...something sex addict who divides his time between his job as an “historical interpreter” at a colonial village, serving as a sponsor at nymphomaniacs-anonymous meetings (where he leads fellow addicts astray), and being a son devoted to a mother slipping into dementia. In his spare hours, he’s also a con man scamming money from wealthy Samaritans who are fooled by his choking act. It’s not nearly as confusing as it sounds, but it is less satisfying than it could be. Palahniuk may write shock-literature, but he also...
...Every time it finally sank in that she had lost her husband of more than 50 years, she'd look at me sadly.' CAROL THATCHER (far right), describing how dementia has debilitated her mother, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
Alzheimer's doctors also reported new discoveries about certain lifestyle factors that may accelerate or slow the dementia that often precedes Alzheimer's. Swedish psychologists studied rates of the disease in a sample of 1,449 people over a period of 21 years. They found, as previous research has suggested, that single people have up to twice the risk of developing Alzheimer's as their married counterparts. But what was unexpected was the finding that the reason for a person's singlehood impacts his or her risk. Compared with other singletons, people who were single as a result of divorce...
...cognitive protection and social benefits of a relationship but lost them may be worse off than those who never enjoyed those benefits at all; or perhaps the emotional toll of losing a close partner damages cognitive functions in a way that puts these people at greater risk for dementia and Alzheimer's down the line. Either way, says Hakansson, the results suggest that "if you are looking for interventions to prevent Alzheimer's, one way may be to identify people who have been divorced or widowed, and who haven't adapted or gotten back into the social circle, and give...
...their previous studies, Mt. Sinai psychiatrist Michal Beeri and her team discovered that people with diabetes in midlife had up to three times the risk of developing dementia 35 years later. Building on that work for their current study, which Beeri presented Monday at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Chicago, researchers analyzed samples of brain tissue from 248 patients, stored in the Mt. Sinai Brain Bank. Detailed medical histories, including medications taken, were available for all patients. Beeri matched 124 patients with diabetes with 124 non-diabetic patients, who were similar to the first group...